12 meses en Bolivia

TIWANAKU

11-06-2017

La Porta del Sol è scolpita in un unico blocco e pesa 44 tonnellate. Probabilmente serviva da calendario / The Door of the Sun was probabily used to determinate the position of the sun through the year

Inca’s legends tell stories of mysterious tall white men with long beards reigning over Lake Titicaca. They were Tiwanaku people, the descendants of Viracocha.

Tiwanaku lasts less than two hours from La Paz. The archelogic site, a UNESCO heritage, was a cerimonial centre and shows the grandiosity of the omonimus culture achived way before the more well known Incas. But who were this people? Where did they come from?

Tiwanaku culture appears on Earth in 600 b.C. Over the century they spreaded their art and cosmology in many other contemporany cultures around South America. In 700 a.C. the Tiwanaku town, maybe the capital of the empire, holded more than 20000 people. Five hundreds years after those people were disappeared and Tiwanaku culture didn’t exist anymore.

What happened is still unknown. When the Spanish arrived they heard local stories about white bearded men got killed by rebels coming from West, the Aymara. Anyhow the influence of Tiwanaku on this world is not disappered with them. The Monolito Beni Pachamama was discovered in the ’70 and moved to La Paz. During the following years many storms distroyed the town and serious car accidents accoured in front of the statue. “The Monolito is an energy spot, like a node of a net. When we moved it we broked a balance and terrible things happened” tells me one day Xavier Medina, a famous anthropologist of Catholic University of Bolivia. The statue was recently moved back in sitiu.

There are still many unanswered questions over this mysterious civilization. We can start to know more about them visiting Tiwanaku site and trying to respect their cosmology that still live in contemprany Bolivian people.